“Haters
of Liberty”
Handout #10
// February 6, 2006
Here are some facts
about certain “haters of liberty” that generally are not
included in many history textbooks or encyclopedias here in America:
·
Pope
Gregory XVI stated: “The
unrestrained freedom of thinking and of openly making
known one’s thoughts is not inherent in the rights of citizens and
is by no means worthy of favor and support.”
·
Pope Pius
IX (1792-1878; pope: 1846-1878) stated: “These false and perverse opinions [e.g.,
of popular government, religious liberty, etc.] are so much the more detestable,
by as much as they…hinder
and banish that salutary influence which the [Roman]
Catholic Church, by the institution and command of her Divine Author,
ought freely to exercise, even to the consummation of the world, not only
over individual men, but [over] nations, [over] peoples, and
[over] sovereigns.” (Quanta Cura; December 8, 1864)
- Pope Pius IX also stated in December 1864 in his “Syllabus
of Errors”: “The
State has not the right to leave every man free
to embrace whatever religion he should deem true. …The [Roman Catholic] Church has the
right to require that the Catholic religion shall be the religion
of the State, to the exclusion of all others. …Cursed be those who assert liberty
of conscience and worship and such that maintain that the [Roman
Catholic] Church may not employ force.”
- Roman Catholic Archbishop John Hughes of New York
stated the following in 1864: “No man has a right
to choose his religion.”
- The Catholic World in August 1871, on page 735,
stated: “…We do not accept it [i.e., the Constitutional Republic of the United States of America],
or hold it to be any government at all… If the
American Republic is to be sustained and preserved at all, it must be
by the rejection of the principle of the [Protestant] Reformation, and the acceptance of the Catholic
principle…” (Note: “Catholic principle” means Catholic religious monopoly!)
- Civilta Cattolica (House organ of the Jesuits)
stated: “Fascism is the regime that corresponds most closely to the concepts
of the Church of Rome.”
- Charles
Chiniquy, ex-Catholic priest and friend of Abraham Lincoln, stated: “Have
not the popes publicly and repeatedly anathematized the
sacred principle of Liberty of Conscience? Have they not boldly said, in the teeth of the nations
of Europe, that Liberty of Conscience must be destroyed
– killed at any cost?
Has not the whole world heard the sentence of death to
liberty coming from the lips of the old man of the Vatican?”
- Dave Hunt, author of A Woman Rides the Beast,
stated: “The Constitution of the United States was condemned
by the Papacy because it separated church and state and prohibited the
establishment of any religion [Ed. Note: as an official State-sponsored
religion] by the government. The
popes, on the other hand, had long required governments
to make Roman Catholicism the official religion and to prohibit
the practice of any other.” (Please call 1-909-987-0771
to order Hunt’s book for $16.20 postpaid.)
For more information on this hatred of liberty (and other
historical facts missing in our history textbooks), please visit
www.pastorbutch.com
(click on the “Tackling the
Tough Topics”
box) or www.tacklingthetoughtopics.net,
and please read TTT newsletter “Deceitful Revisers and Editors of
History”. |
